The monsters let Sam and I out long enough to visit the North East Teenage Book Awards last night where Sam’s brilliant book, The Black Tattoo, had been shortlisted for the prize. The other nominees were: Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine Angel by Cliff McNish The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony McGowan The Falconer’s [...]
Archive > January 2009
Radio Ga-Argh!
The lovely folks at Radio Cambyshire (right in the heart of cheese-snorkling country) have broadcast a report about the eight of us trapped by the monsters. You can hear the piece by clicking play on the ultra modern, web-fangled audio doobry below: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] If, by some chance, the player [...]
He’s Got The Power!
While browsing the monsters’ bookshelves, I came across another novel written by one of our captive number – Jimmy Coates: Power by Joe Craig. Now, I’ve long been a fan of the incredible Master Coates, so I was eagerly anticipating his latest outing – and let me tell you that Power is exactly the right [...]
A Day-Pass from Darkness
The good news, first. To my utter amazement and glee and delight The Black Tattoo has been shortlisted for another prize here in the UK, namely the North East Teenage Book Award. As you’ll see if you hit the link, the other titles in the running are: BROKEN SOUP, by Jenny Valentine ANGEL, by Cliff [...]
He’s no ordinary kid…
Although my own horror series, Invisible Fiends, doesn’t start coming out until Feb 2010, I’ve got a few new books sneaking onto the shelves this year. Of all of them, my favourites are the Ben 10 stories I’ve written for Egmont. Book 1 is already out. Book 3 and Book 4 will be out in [...]
Clear And Present Danger
My pen’s run out and the monster guarding my door today – Euphetania Poobracket – says she’ll only get me a new one if I tell her a story. *Sigh* So, here’s another tale from Scream Street – Clear And Present Danger… — “Happy birthday, Uncle Otto…” sang the thin, ginger-haired man. “Sir Otto!” “Sorry. [...]
A Monster Game with Monster Prizes!
As the monsters have been stood over me for more than a week now watching to see that I finish Dragon Orb: Aurora by the end of the month, there’s not been time for much else. But Blusterfart the Unsteady (as I’ve dubbed him) came in this morning, pointed at the computer and, in a spray of [...]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Anyone who’s read my books knows that I enjoy a good zombie romp as much as the next guy. The trouble is, there’s nothing really new you can do with the stumbling, brain-munching creatures of the undead that hasn’t already been seen before – or so I thought until I stumbled across an exciting new [...]
KFC Fever
You know how it is, when you have to live on damp loo and troll scratchings..? Even though the nutritional content of all the mushy stuff we’re getting is apparently quite good (the itchy bumps on my ankles have cleared up nicely at any rate) I have found myself getting feverish about drive-thru junk food. [...]
We’ve Been Wordled!
I’ve been trying to get inside the minds of our captors. But it looks like they’ve been getting inside ours as well! Every word we’ve written has been entered in a monstrous database, and they’ve built up a complete psychological profile of the group of authors in here. But I’ve stolen it! Here it is:
